The Galactic Alliance

The Alliance aren’t the first pan-galactic government, but they are the one in power during the period of I Thought There’d be Stars... Led by the Humans of the newly settled New Terra, the Alliance took control of the galaxy after a short but brutal war that culminated in the complete destruction of the planet Phlegethon. After witnessing this incredible display of destructive force, the old government surrendered and allowed the Alliance to take control. The Alliance immediately swore that they would never deploy the weapon that shattered Phlegethon ever again, although rumour says that they still have a stockpile hidden away somewhere.

Shortly after they took control, the Humans of the Alliance started looking back to their roots. With Earth Prime having been left utterly uninhabitable after the events of the 21st and 22nd centuries, the only people who could really speak about the planet’s beauty or its history were those who had stories passed down through their families from the first settlers who were aboard the Arks. So, in order to recapture a sense of cultural heritage and gain some goodwill from the Human population at large, the Alliance began funding the Old Earth Renewal Movement. An organisation whose purpose was to return to Earth Prime and begin restoring it to its former glory by undoing the massive environmental damage done by their ancestors.

This wasn’t the Alliance’s only policy after they took power. Under the previous government, the Cybernetic population had begun a revolt that was incited by a rogue computer virus that sought out Cybernetics and drove them to try and destroy any organic life they came across. The old government managed to supress the revolt and supposedly eradicated the virus.

However, not long after the Alliance took control, Cybernetic dissidents began appearing who protested the Alliance’s brutal takeover strategy and their lack of empathy for the displaced Rivangian people, who were the natives of the recently destroyed planet Phlegethon. The Alliance blamed this unrest on a resurgence of the virus that had caused the original Cybernetic revolt. Taking swift action to silence those protesting, the Alliance claimed that the virus was spreading through the galaxy-wide information network, LegionNet. This network was sustained by a series of interconnected giga-computers, each the size of a small moon in their own right. LegionNet connected the entire galaxy together, similar to the internet on Earth Prime but on a galactic scale. The Alliance sought out each of these giga-computers and, one by one, destroyed all of them, severing the galaxy from LegionNet and leaving the Alliance in complete control of galactic communications. Although, some say that one survived, taken out of orbit and hidden by its operators who continue to broadcast free information as a pirate station. Completing this cruel stroke of authoritarian brutality, the Alliance declared that no Cybernetic was safe from the virus and so all of them should be destroyed on sight.

Those few Cybernetics that have survived this purge live in hiding, concealing their nature from any organics they come across.